US Patent Issued to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Methods and systems for detection and phasing of complex genetic variants" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,237, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Burlington, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for detection and phasing of complex genetic variants" was invented by Qiandong Zeng (Burlington, N.C.) and Natalia Tszine Leach (Burlington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems and computer-program products for the determination of complex genetic variants. The disclosed methods, systems and computer-program products may include obtaining a mutant scaffold nucleotide sequence that comprises a sequence that includes mutations characteristic of the complex genetic variant; obtaining...